Gaël Morel

Annecy is no tourist destination for three working-class Algerian brothers and their father, in the months after their mother has died. Marc is deeply troubled: he tries to stiff drug dealers and then plots revenge. Christophe is released from jail, lands a job, and must overcome various temptations in order to keep it. Olivier, nearing 18, may be falling in love with Hicham, a young man who constantly practices capoeira on the shores of the lake.

A woman (Catherine Deneuve) becomes obsessed with her son's best friend after her child dies in a car accident. (imdb)

Vassili is an aged prostitute with killer instincts. He finds an unconscious young man in the Forest of Boulogne and takes him home. Now lovers and accomplices, the two men become a couple in prostitution and steal from their clients. And yet, menaces of retaliation leave the couple with no choice but to escape from Paris. The runaway begins... (imdb)

A brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France: Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author than to his friends; beautiful Julie, his girlfriend, falling in love with Quentin's best friend Jimmy, who is unable to expresss himself and grew up under bad social circumstances; and shy boy Samir, exiled from Algeria, who lost his "brother" and only friend some time ago. Samir heavily falls in love with Quentin, but he can't handle it... (imdb)

Lea tries to steel from a supermarket but is captured by a guard. (KG)

A middle-aged factory worker's life is upended when she follows her employer to Morocco. (imdb)

Samy (Nicolas Cazalé), a young Franco-Algerian, hits a policeman at a roadblock and must flee France. He takes refuge with his grandfather (Mohamed Majd) in Algeria. But he does not speak the local language, and everything is strange to him, even members of his family: Nadia (Amira Casar) his cousin, a pregnant widow; and Qu'Issam (Kheireddine Defdaf) another cousin, who was expelled from France, and hates everything, French. (LW)

Through the portraits of young adults excluded from their family home because of their homosexuality, Gaël Morel wants to show the disaster of the worst homophobia, that which is practiced in family. How do young people relearn to live, to respect themselves, and to look to the future after being (mubi.com)

A potential love triangle between Emma, Sammy, and Cyril is shattered by the emergence of the AIDS crisis. Expecting the worst, each character's destiny takes an unexpected path. (imdb)